PSU Ecosystems

The Department of Ecosystem Science and Management offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

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🌟 ESM Career Fair – February 12, 2026!

Students, employers & faculty — come connect, network, and grow 🌿

📍 Forest Resources Building | 🕒 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Don’t miss it!

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Kenny Kane ’14 Forest Science is leading Generations Forestry with a focus on private timberland management, stewardship, and planning for forests 100 years into the future. 🌳

Learn how Penn State helped shape his path as a forester and business owner ➡️ https://t.co/ILpoFCyPId

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Foresters occasionally use their arboricultural skills in unique locations, like removing invasive shrubs from the sides and top of the University's Monroe Furnace stonework stack.

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Kudos to Assistant Professor Estelle Couradeau on her NSF CAREER award!

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Congratulations to Steinman Lab alum Jacquie Molloseau, ’23, for receiving a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award! Jacquie is now a PhD student in the Allen Lab @DrFluvial at @PSUecosystems surveying stream macroinvertebrate eDNA.

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Nine Penn State Wildlife Society students attended the Northeast Student Conclave (April 16–18, MD), earning 2nd in Quiz Bowl, 1st in team, six individual 1sts, and 1st overall (of 9 schools). Penn State DuBois placed 3rd overall.

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Congratulations to Jason on this well-deserved achievement!

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Foresters make every effort to return the uprooted root balls back to the forest floor.

Video credit: Brent Harding

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Penn State Foresters spent days clearing trees from township and University roads. Most of the windthrown trees were very mature Norway spruce, eastern hemlock, Virginia pine and eastern white pine.

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Forester Kevin Cook, cable skids a large white oak log in the Stone Valley Forest. Kevin's FOR228 students fell the hard leaning tree and bucked the tree into a merchantable length.

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The Stone Valley Recreation Area and the Forestland Management Office staff assisted the PA Fish and Boat Commission and dozens of volunteers in the pre-season trout stocking of Penn State's Lake Perez and the outlet stretch of Shaver Creek southward.

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Congratulations to all of the students who competed in the 2025 Annual Dendrocup held late last fall. These students earned a coveted team spot by being among the top performing students in FOR 203 Field Dendrology.

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Check out what we got on our game cameras! So cool!

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REMINDER: Our annual ESM Career Fair is scheduled for Thursday, February 12th. We look forward to your participation.
NEW THIS YEAR: A photographer will be on site between the hours of 11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. for our students. Take advantage of expert photography services.